They´re Everywhere! Part II

Sooo... first, Elder Tavita has a transfer this week!  Ugh!  So this means that in four changes, I will have had four companions!  I really want to know who my next comp is goin to be.  I hate waiting.


This week has been a lot of fun, and I´ve been having so many great, personal, spiritual experiences.  That´s the point of the title!  Spiritual experiences and miracles ARE EVERYWHERE!  We should have them and recognize them Every Day.  Last night, I finished with everything a little early, so I decided to watch some Preach my Gospel videos about how to help people read the Book of Mormon.  One of them just really helped me figure some stuff out, and I realized that I could be focusing on the Book of Mormon more in this work right now.  At the end of the video it showed a clip from Elder Holland´s famous talk where he really testifies boldly of the Book of Mormon.  I´ve seen that one before, but for some reason, this time something really stuck out to me.  He said something really close to no member or investigator can come to full faith and full conversion in this church without knowledge and conviction of the divinity of this book!  How true!


When I heard those words, once more (and this really hasn´t happened too often for me in my life) I felt a powerful witness in my heart of the truth and divinity of the Book of Mormon.  The feeling was rather transcending this time, and I am confident in saying that it was probably the most powerful witness I´ve ever received concerning this thing.  Don´t misunderstand.  Since the beginning of about highschool I think, I´ve known without a doubt that this book is true.  But what I think made the difference this time was simply prayer.  Recently I started including in my prayers to have my testimony of certain things fortified, that I might with more conviction help these people feel the Spirit concerning our message.  I have only very very recently started praying for that the last couple of nights, and did I ever receive an answer!  If God so quickly answers these prayers, I think I will continue asking, in this and other Gospel aspects.


I testify to everyone reading these words that I know for myself that the Book of Mormon is the word of God!  It truly is the very keystone of my testimony.  Because I know that it is God´s word for me in my life, I know that Jesus Christ truly is God´s Son and my Savior.  That´s what the whole book is about.  I also know that Joseph Smith was not a liar.  On the contrary, I know that he most surely was and is the prophet of this last and great dispensation!  How wonderful it is to know these few simple truths in my life!  I want everyone to know and feel these things.  I want the blessings I have because of these things to be a part of everyone elses lives.


I invite everyone to read the Book of Mormon.  If you´ve already read it, please read it again.  If you read it with the Spirit, and prayerfully, it never gets old.  I invite everyone to ask God, in the name of His Son Jesus Christ if it really is true.  If you´ve already asked, ask again.  I testify that He will strengthen whatever conviction you already have of it´s divinity.  Even if that conviction is zero.


So, will you read the Book of Mormon tonight, even just one page, and then ask God to know if it´s true.  I promise you that if you do, you will know, just as I do, that it is true, and that it will bless and guide and change you life forever.


I´m not just saying it.  It´s a promise.  It´s God´s promise.  Prove Him.  In the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.


Love,

Elder Kent M. Thalman